‘Fabric bags only eco-friendly alternative to plastic ones’

Only fabric bags are the environmentally friendly alternative to the plastic shopping bags that are banned in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) from the Pakistan Independence Day August 14. But unfortunately, the Ministry of Climate Change got approved hypocritical regulations from the cabinet that bans the single-use polyethylene (PE) bags while allowing the use of polypropylene bags with a thin layer of PE, a statement said on Saturday.

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The Devcom-Pakistan Executive Director Munir Ahmed made these remarks while speaking at the launch of Devcom cotton bags campaign on Saturday at the Institute of Rural Management (IRM).

The campaign is initiated by the Islamabad Devcom Centennial Leo Club (DCLC), a group of young environmentalists. Senior environmentalists, heads of different civil society and government organisations, and fellows of LEAD Pakistan were present on the occasion. 

Published in The Express Tribune, September 1^st, 2019.